Pocket Casts: Podcast Player

Pocket Casts: Podcast Player

By Automattic

  • Category: News
  • Release Date: 2011-01-26
  • Current Version: 7.62
  • Adult Rating: 9+
  • File Size: 113.58 MB
  • Developer: Automattic
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Score: 4.1
4.12026
From 5,496 Ratings
Free On itunes

Description

Pocket Casts is the world's most powerful podcast platform, an app by listeners, for listeners. Our podcast player provides next-level listening, search and discovery tools. Find your next obsession with our hand curated podcast recommendations for easy discovery, and seamlessly enjoy your favorite shows without the hassle of subscribing. Here's what the press has to say: Wired: "Pocket Casts Is the Podcast App Every iPhone User Needs" iMore: "Pocket Casts is the best podcast app for iPhone" With a unique set of simple yet powerful features and a limitless podcast database, you're sure to find something you love. WE SWEAT THE DETAILS Design: Easily listen to, manage and find new podcasts. Themes: Whether you're a dark or light theme person we've got you covered. We even have you OLED lovers covered with our Extra Dark theme. Universal: Custom but familiar iPad interface, supporting Slide Over, Split View and Picture in Picture. Everywhere: CarPlay, AirPlay, Chromecast and Sonos. Listen to your podcasts in more places than ever before. POWERFUL PLAYBACK Up next: Automatically build a playback queue from your favorite shows. Sign in and have that Up Next queue sync to all your devices. Trim silence: Cut silences from episodes so you finish them faster, saving hours. Variable speed: Change the play speed from anywhere between 0.5 to 3x. Volume boost: Increase the volume of voices, while decreasing background noise. Stream: Play episodes on the fly. Chapters: Jump between chapters easily, and enjoy embedded artwork that the author has added (we support MP3 and M4A chapter formats). Audio & video: Play all of your favorite episodes, toggle video to audio. Skip playback: Skip episode intros, jump through episodes with custom skip intervals. Apple Watch: Control playback from our Apple Watch app, adjust the volume or change playback effects, all without ever touching your phone. Sleep timer: We'll pause your episode so you can rest your weary head. Airplay & Chromecast: Send episodes straight to your TV or speakers with a single tap. Sonos: Browse and play your podcast collection directly from the Sonos app. CarPlay: When you're in the car, so are we. SMART TOOLS Sync: Subscriptions, Up Next, listening history, playback and filters are all securely stored in the cloud. You can pick up where you left off on another device and even the web. Refresh: Let our servers check for new episodes, so you can get on with your day. Notifications: We'll let you know when new episodes arrive, if you like. Auto download: Automatically download episodes for offline playback. Filters: Custom filters will organize your episodes. Storage: All the tools you need to keep your podcasts tamed. ALL YOUR FAVORITES Discover: Subscribe to any podcast in iTunes and more. Browse by charts, networks and categories. Share: Spread the word with podcast and episode sharing. OPML: Jump on board without any hassle with OPML import. Export your collection at any time. There are many more powerful, straight-forward features that make Pocket Casts the perfect podcasting app for you. So what are you waiting for? Visit pocketcasts.com for more info about the web and other platforms supported by Pocket Casts.

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Reviews

  • Unusable

    1
    By Zenman!
    Don’t know what happened to this App, but the last 3 updates have made it so buggy, I’m looking at finding another podcast player after enjoying this one for 3 years. Constantly crashes during start up to the point I usually give up and listen to a book instead 😔. Crashes during playing too, on those occasional times I can get it to open. It’s gotten very laggy on loading and the controls are also either laggy or don’t respond.

  • Irritating.

    2
    By Tracker112
    This is a great app if you like your podcasts to randomly stop playing, enjoy glitches and don’t mind impossibly slow functioning. It used to work great but now it is unbelievably difficult to use.

  • Catch Up to Overcast

    3
    By mingrosec
    Voice boost is not up to par with Overcast. It just removes low frequencies (not ideal), but doesn’t remaster audio to normalize quiet speakers to the same volume. Playback speed adjustment needs to be available without having to tap into a playback speed panel. Adjusting speed pauses audio briefly every tap unless shorten silence is enabled. The player randomly disappears sometimes requiring a quit and relaunch.

  • Cannot import podcasts

    1
    By Mikey Dearest
    I spent WAY more time than should be needed to accomplish a simple task. When following the prompts to import nothing happens. Rebooted iphone several times. Will not import from Overcast or Google Pods.. moving on to an app that works . One star .

  • Has become unusable

    2
    By gopuppy01
    This app has become almost unusable since last week. What did you do to it? I just purchased the app about a week ago. It's a decent app but I can't sync. I get a sync failed message and I know it wasn't happening at first. Also, in the help section, it states that the podcast layout can be changed by swiping to the right. Either I'm an idiot or it doesn't work. That isn't very important but the sync issue is. I'm not impressed with the auto-reply email I got saying I might or might not get a response. Really? Nice... I agree with the user who commented about the cutesy language, lame and not helpful. We'll see what happens. If my issues are addressed I'll update this review. So, I see issues steadily fixed and really have no complaints. I like the app. Now, how about bookmarks? The other podcast app I purchased at the same time as Pocket Casts now has this feature. I hope you guys add it too!

  • Good

    5
    By the_stray
    Good

  • The best podcast app, but…

    1
    By elavdeveloper
    Until Pocket Casts adopts podcasting 2.0, it will continue to have a single star for me. Pocket Casts has been for me the best application on Android and iOS, but it is a shame that it has not yet adopted transcriptions (essential for accessibility), V4V, host information, etc... However, update after update adds new features which really don't add anything to a hard core podcast listener.

  • Bugs

    3
    By LALearning
    Buggy updates for the best podcast app?

  • Fantastic podcast application

    5
    By Jbdhiggs99819
    When Google podcast was retired I transitioned to this app. Wish I did it sooner! Lovely user interface and very functional. Would love the ability to fast one click download functionality for podcasts (maybe a swipe option?). Takes several clicks to get to download a podcast.

  • Player blanks out Dynamic Island display

    1
    By kcollett
    When the Player window (with Now Plsying, Details, etc) is open, whatever is being displayed in the Dynamic Island is suppressed unless you tap on it or switch between tabs (e.g. from Now Playing to Details) (in which case that display is temporarily enabled. (The Dynamic Island display is also re-enabled if you open the Playback Effects dialog.) (I tried the support email, but it seems that is provided only for premium users.) Response to developer feedback: It doesn’t look like there’s a way to do that without creating an account (which I don’t want to do). (It would just be a copy of the above text, anyway.) Second response to developer: I created a short video demonstrating the issue; is there an email address to which I can send this?

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